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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2U.K. MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

The Marriage Act 1949 (c.76)E+W

9E+WIn the Marriage Act 1949 for the words “an infant”, wherever they occur in section 3, 16 or 28 or in Schedule 2, there shall be substituted the words “ a child ” and for the words “the infant”, wherever they occur in section 3 or in Schedule 2, there shall be substituted the words “ the child ”.

10E+WIn section 78 of that Act—

(a)in subsection (1) for the definition of “infant” there shall be substituted the following definition—

child” means a person under the age of eighteen;;

(b)after that subsection there shall be inserted the following subsection—

(1A)References in this Act to the parents of a child being or not being married to each other at the time of his birth shall be construed in accordance with section 1 of the Family Law Reform Act 1987.

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